Recipe Cooked, Photographed and Written by Praveena
PrepTime:5 mins CookTime:10 mins Cuisine:Indian
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Ginger chutney / Andhra Allam pachadi! How can I forget those first two trimesters of my first pregnancy, when I solely depended on the ginger chutney for breakfast! Yes you read it right… it might be a sort of awkward rare combo.. but all I used to have was a butter toast with this ginger chutney as a spread.
Just to get rid of my severe morning sickness.. haha. Lovely ,memorable days!! 🙂 Of course, the chutney was made by my MIL.
This chutney I made stays good up to 6 to 8 weeks in the refrigerator, if you follow my every step that I mentioned. Give it a try then!
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- Possible alterations for the recipe, ‘Andhra Allam Pachadi / Ginger Chutney’:
- How to serve, ‘Allam Pachadi / South Indian style Ginger Chutney’:
- Health Benefits of ‘Allam Pachadi / Ginger Chutney’:
- Other recipes from my blog:
- Step wise pics Procedure for ‘Andhra style Allam Pachadi / Fresh Ginger Chutney’:
- Prep Work:
- Cooking:
- Tips & Storage:
- Result:
- Recipe Card & Print:
Possible alterations for the recipe, ‘Andhra Allam Pachadi / Ginger Chutney’:
To use frozen ginger: This recipe is meant to be made only with fresh ginger. But, in case if you have frozen ginger, dry roast it for 5 mins, before starting with the recipe.
Using chillies: Instead of only the dry red chillies, you might use fresh green chillies or a combination of fresh green chillies & dry red chillies. But the shelf life of the chutney would be less when compared to the original recipe below.
Adding Garlic: If you wish to add garlic to this recipe, add 4 to 5 garlic cloves while roasting the dry red chillies. Then, you can eliminate adding hing / Asafoetida.
Try not to add any water, while grinding the chutney. The jaggery itself is enough to make it able to be grind. I did not add any water.
To Skip Tempering: The last part, tempering, can be skipped totally which doesn’t make much difference.
How to serve, ‘Allam Pachadi / South Indian style Ginger Chutney’:
Ginger Chutney / Allam Pachchadi, is best suitable as a condiment for South Indian Breakfast recipes like idli, dosa, upma, uthappam.
It tastes excellent as a side even with Paratha, Plain Rice. As shown in the pic below, we had this chutney as a condiment for Undrallu / Steamed Rice Dumplings, which is a South Indian breakfast recipe.
Use it as a spread on your plain toast / for your sandwiches, to give that spicy taste.
This chutney works great for travel purposes. As it stays good for 1 week to 10 days at room temperature.
This chutney is best option as an after-sickness recovery food. It rejuvenates the taste buds for such situations.
Health Benefits of ‘Allam Pachadi / Ginger Chutney’:
Ginger, as per Ayurveda, is natures best remedy for treating nausea, sickness and even helps in digestion. For this reason, every Indian recipe have mostly ginger as an ingredient.
Jaggery is a great source of Iron.
Tamarind is high in anti inflammatory & anti oxidant properties, that protects against cancer. The tamarind puree helps in reducing body weight.
To conclude, Ginger Chutney / Allam Pachchadi helps to eliminate the morning sickness, aids in digestion, anti-inflammation. It is suitable for Vegetarian, Vegan, Plant Based, Gluten free diets.
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Ingredients:
- Fresh Ginger pieces – ½ cup
- Salt – 2 teaspoon
- Cooking Oil – 3 tablespoons
- Tamarind – ¼ cup
- Dry Red Chillies – 20
- Jaggery – ½ cup
- Urad dal / Minapappu / Split Black gram – 1 tablespoon
- Chana dal / Split Yellow gram dal – 1 tablespoon
- Turmeric – ¼ teaspoon
- Asafoetida / Hing / Inguva – half of ¼ teaspoon
- Hot Water – half of ¼ cup (optional)
Ingredients for Tempering:
- Mustard seeds / Aavalu – ¼ teaspoon
- Jeera / Cumin Seeds – ½ teaspoon
- Curry Leanes – 5
- Cooking Oil – 1 tablespoon
Special Ingredients:
- Jaggery
- Hing
- Tamarind
Step wise pics Procedure for ‘Andhra style Allam Pachadi / Fresh Ginger Chutney’:
Prep Work:
Wash the ginger with cold water and wipe clean it perfectly. Peel and cut into small pieces. Finely chop/grate the jaggery.
Cooking:
Now, put a small frying pan on stove under medium flame. Add the oil, let it heat.
Add all these>> Chana Dal/Senagapappu, Urad Dal/Minappappu, Hing/Inguva, Turmeric Powder and Dry Red Chillies .
Sauté them by stirring continuously until the pulses turn light brown.
Take the sauteed ingredients aside, , into a blender / spice grinder. Now, replace the pan back to flame.
Add the ginger pieces & dry tamarind. Stir fry until the tamarind softens.
Take them into the same blender / spice grinder. Let them cool.
Put the pan back to the stove top. Add all the ‘Ingredients for Tempering’. Sauté them for a min.
Switch the flame off. Add the grated jaggery and salt to the spice grinder.
Without adding any water, grind the ingredients in the blender into a smooth paste.
Take the chutney into a serving plate, top it up with the tempered ingredients. Done!
Tips & Storage:
- Adjust the salt, spice & sweet as per your taste.
- Don’t add onion to this recipe, as it contains water it reduces the shelf life of the chutney on whole.
- Throughout the recipe remember not to add any water. By doing so we can extend the shelf life of this chutney.
- Wipe Clean the blender/mixie before using it for grinding.
- In case you find difficult in grinding into a smooth paste, just add a teaspoon of hot oil while grinding. Or else add hot water while grinding. I did not add any water.
- Storage: This chutney stays good for up to a week at room temperature. Transfer it into an air tight container, store it in fridge and it stays good from 6 to 8 weeks as well.
- The chutney might become dry in the fridge. Then, to loosen it, before serving the chutney, just add hot water to the needed quantity, But store the rest back in the fridge.
Result:
- This, Ginger Chutney / Allam Pachadi is obviously sweet & sour which it acquired from jaggery and tamarind respectively.
- As shown in the picture below, we had this chutney as a condiment for Undrallu / Steamed Rice Dumplings which is a South Indian breakfast item.
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Andhra Allam Pachadi / Ginger Chutney
Equipment
- Small Frying pan (for stove-top method)
- Blender/ Spice Grinder/ Mixie.
Ingredients
- ½ cup Fresh Ginger pieces
- 1½ teaspoon Salt
- 3 tablespoons Cooking Oil
- ¼ cup Tamarind
- 20 count Dry Red Chillies
- ½ cup Jaggery
- 1 tablespoon Urad dal / Minapappu / Split Black gram
- 1 tablespon Chana dal / Split Yellow gram dal
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- ⅛ teaspoon Asafoetida / Hing / Inguva
- ⅛ cup Hot Water (optional)
Ingredients for Tempering: (optional)
- ¼ teaspoon Mustard seeds / Aavalu
- ½ teaspoon Jeera / Cumin Seeds
- 5 count Curry Leaves
- 1 tablespoon Cooking Oil
Instructions
- Wash the ginger with cold water and wipe clean it perfectly. Peel the ginger and cut into small pieces. Finely chop/grate the jaggery.
- Now, put a small frying pan on stove under medium flame. Add the oil, let it heat.
- Now, Add all these>> Chana Dal/Senagapappu, Urad Dal/Minappappu, Hing/Inguva, Turmeric Powder and Dry Red Chillies . Saute them by stirring continuously until the pulses turn light brown. Take the sauteed ingredients aside, into a blender / spice grinder.
- Now, replace the pan back to flame. Add the ginger pieces & dry tamarind. Stir fry until the tamarind softens.Take them inot the same blender / spice grinder. Let them cool.
- Put the pan back to the stove top. Add all the 'Ingredients for Temoering'. Saute them for a min and then switch the flame off. Add the grated jaggery and salt to the spice grinder. Without adding any water, grind the ingredients in the blender into a smooth paste.
- Take the chutney into a serving plate, top it up with the tempered ingredients. Done!
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This recipe was so quick and easy to follow and make. But most importantly it tasted fantastic! We had it with dosa and the flavour was perfect! And even though I made it 20 days ago, I’m still using it while storing it in the fridge. Thank you for sharing!! 🙂
Felt very authentic. This is a definite revisit recipe for me again and again. Happy to be following you. Thank you.
Hi Pratima Jain, Thank you so much for your great feedback. 🙂